Eric Mangini

Gase met with team officials for five hours earlier this week. He has met with not just the Dolphins search committee headed by Mike Tannenbaum, but also players Ryan Tannehill and Ndamukong Suh. He was considered the top target by team insiders at the start of this process, as I wrote last Sunday.

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